HUD OIG is auditing the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority's 2017 CDBG Disaster Recovery Match Program. After hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Islands in September 2017, HUD awarded USVI $1.14 billion in CDBG-DR funds. Of the total award, $415,750,000 was budgeted to the match program. The match program matches HUD funds with other agencies, such as FEMA, to address unmet recovery needs.

HUD OIG has started an audit of HUD’s Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees’ Use of Program Income. Our audit objective is to determine whether HUD ensured that program income generated from disaster funds awarded to CDBG-DR grant recipients were used to positively impact and support disaster recovery in affected areas and to benefit program beneficiaries.

HUD OIG is auditing the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) programs. HUD is required to assess grantee's procedures to prevent any duplication of benefits. Our objective is to determine how HUD assesses the adequacy of grantee procedures to prevent any duplication of benefits, both before and after grant execution.

HUD OIG is auditing the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority's monitoring of its 2017 CDBG Disaster Recovery funds. After hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Islands in September 2017, HUD awarded USVI $1.14 billion in CDBG-DR funds. The objective of the audit is to determine whether the Authority effectively monitored its CDBG-DR funded activities administered by itself and by subrecipients to ensure the national objectives and performance measures were met.

HUD OIG is auditing the State of Georgia’s monitoring of its Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) hurricane Harvey, Irma, and Maria (HIM) grants' activities and subrecipients. Following the natural disasters occurred in January and September 2017, HUD awarded more than $50.9 million in disaster recovery funding to the State. The objective of the audit is to determine whether the State was effectively monitoring its CDBG-DR HIM grants’ activities and subrecipients to ensure that the activities address the unmet long-term recovery needs.

HUD OIG is auditing the State of California’s 2018 Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funds.  HUD awarded the State more than $1 billion for its 2018 disasters.  Our audit objective will be to assess how effectively the State of California is operating its Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation and Reconstruction program (program).   

We audited the State of Florida’s Housing Repair and Replacement Program (HRRP), one of the programs that the State developed to address its unmet disaster recovery housing needs because of Hurricane Irma in 2017.  We audited this program due to the large amount of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding allocated of $346.2 million.  Our audit objective was to determine whether the State administered its 2017 CDBG-DR funds for its HRRP effectively and efficiently.  Specifically, we focused on determining whether the State (1) effectively used funds

HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it is tracking and improving the timing of its delivery of the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program funds over the last 20 years, and whether CPD has met Congressional allocation timing requirements. Specifically, HUD OIG will be measuring the timing of three CDBG-DR program delivery points: (1) CPD’s allocation of the funds to grantees, (2) the grantees’ submission of their initial action plans, and (3) CPD’s execution of grant agreements.

HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it effectively and efficiently designed its Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program requirements and monitoring to ensure that the grantees meet statutory and other Federal low-and moderate-income requirements. The CDBG-DR Program provides flexible grants to help State, cities, counties, parishes, and territories to rebuild the areas affected by Presidentially declared disasters and provide crucial seed money to start the recovery process.

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